Magnetic equator / Kaie Kellough.
Material type: TextPublisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : McClelland & Stewart, [2019]Copyright date: �2019Description: 103 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780771043116 (trade paperback)
- C811/.6 23
- 819.1/6 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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800 - 899 | West Grey Durham Branch Shelves | Non-fiction | 811.6 KEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 33321003183119 |
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811.54 COH Book of longing [classics] | 811.54 LAN The quiet in me : poems / | 811.54 LUS Swing beam / | 811.6 KEL Magnetic equator / | 811.6 SIN How to say Babylon : a memoir / | 811 FRO Selected poems [classics] | 811 LON The song of Hiawatha and other poems [classics] |
"The poems in Kaie Kellough's third collection are inhabited by migration and distance. They are ghosts that issue from suburban oblivion. They are released from their non-existence by suicides in the back seats of sedans. They wander, and seek a language for their wandering. The words they find are often made of smoke. They drift between North and South America looking for their ancestry in the Amazon Rainforest, the Atlantic Ocean, and the prairies, foothills, and badlands of Western Canada. They haunt the hostile suburbs of Calgary and they finally come to rest in the snowed-in, bricked-in boroughs of Montreal. They find their voice in the natural world and in the works of Caribbean and Canadian novelists and poets. They reassemble passages about migration, about seed catalogues, about origins, about finding a way in the world, about black ships sailing across to land, and this act of appropriation is evidence of two things: a struggle to explain a state of being hemisphered, of being present here while carrying a heartbeat from elsewhere, and a mapping of the distances travelled."-- Provided by publisher.
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